(1273 quotes found)
“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”
Albert Einstein
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person”
Mignon McLaughlin
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
Michel de Montaigne
“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
Oscar Wilde
“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
“Get married, but never to a man who is home all day”
George Bernard Shaw
“Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one”
Joseph Campbell
“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”
Doug Larson
“God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage”
Mark Twain